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The Victorian Age boasted a wealth of notable scientists, inventors, politicians and healthcare advocates and accounts of some of the most remarkable, including Faraday, Livingstone, Florence Nightingale, Darwin, Dickens and Gladstone, are narrated here. Age 12+

From the Montgolfier Brothers’ hot air balloon to Whittle’s jet engine, via the steam engine, braille, photography and TV, here are some of the greatest innovations of the past 300 years, demonstrating the relentless curiosity and problem-solving ability of the human mind.

Including extracts from classical music, this CD features scientists ranging from Copernicus to Humboldt, Babbage and Oppenheimer. Often self-taught, each individual had passion, dedication and the ability to overcome great obstacles in the quest for truth.

From ‘father of modern medicine’ Hippocrates and early medics Galen, Ibn Sina and Hildegard of Bingen, this title goes on to examine Jenner and Pasteur’s achievements, concluding in the 20th century with Curie, Fleming and the discovery of DNA.